Published: Thursday, October 06, 2011, 7:47 AM
Updated: Thursday, October 06, 2011, 9:08 AM
It was eerie that on the same day the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a civil rights legend, died, U.S. District Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn refused to delay enforcement of Alabama's anti-civil-rights immigration law. Shuttlesworth did so much for civil rights, and he was responsible for bringing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Birmingham in the early 1960s to demonstrate and march for equal rights. Shuttlesworth's courage was legendary; we should all wish we had a thimble full of that courage.
So now, nearly 50 years later, a federal judge is upholding a law that encourages discrimination. One reader told me this week her daughter was singled out in her Birmingham city schools classroom, along with another student, to receive forms to complete as part of the immigration law's requirement that schools check the immigration status of students and their parents. The only two students in the class to get the forms looked to be Hispanic, the reader told me.
The reader, a U.S. citizen, questioned the school's assistant principal and was told "they gave the paper only to children whom they thought were not from here. My daughter is a U.S.A. citizen."
I'll write in opposition to this law as often as I can, because it's a bad law. It is mean, intrusive, cruel, a burden to enforce, filled with unfunded mandates, and it inconveniences U.S. citizens as much as it does undocumented immigrants ...
http://blog.al.com/jkennedy/2011/10/joey_kennedy_just_because_its.html
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